The PEARL

[MikDaTv]

Dr. White stepped over the deck on the way into the compartment of the submerged facility that would now be serving as his office. The compartment was smaller then his old work space but he was willing to make the sacrifice for the sake of his work.

His joints ached while he was in this pressurized environment but to stay hidden the submerged facility was necessary. Covered in sound absorbing material, the under water base consisted of 3, 70 meter tall, separate structures called Pods, connected by walkway tubes on the first and topmost levels.

Dr. White's office, and the offices and living quarters of all the staff at the Pearl were in Pod 1. Their research, the laboratories and computer systems were all on in Pod 2. The machinery, life support systems and electrical generators are all in Pod 3.

Dr. White was unable to bring most of his research subjects with him, but he didn't consider that a problem. With his latest information from the experiments done on the Halcyon Project, he was willing to dedicate his efforts to it. He had Dr. Black working on another XAN suit right now.

In the meantime, Dr. White would need a go to guy. It didn't take him long to realize he already had one. GTG project 2 was sitting in a bacta tank right now. His dead body wasn't healing within the liquid but it was preserving it from decay until Dr. White could act on his idea.

[MikDaTv]

Dr. White observed the injection from the safety of the reinforced glass. 109K was getting several injections into his bone structure by large syringes with needles made from Phrik in order to penetrate his hardened bones.

The Injectors were filled with BlackBlood. White had taken the few living cells left on the scorched corpse and input their DNA and cellular structure into the programming for the BlackBlood. With their new data they would use all the resources available to them to repair and rebuild the body they were injected into. Jik would be rebuilt, and Whites prodigal son would return, with no memories of his time away.

He turned to the tech working next to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "prepare the flash learning chamber. And retrieve the memory storage backups we have of Subject 109K before his escape. If any memories of 109K's life outside our walls survived what was done to him, we'll cover it up by rebooting his mind with the memories we have on file.

The tech nodded and got up from his chair to carry out the order. Dr. White went back to watching. By now the BlackBlood was already busy at work repairing his bone marrow. Once enough living cells were repaired his uncanny regenerative abilities would take over and he'd be back to his normal self.

Dr. Black walked into the room and stood beside his partner. "Why do we do this White? 109K was a failure. we could not control him."

"It's always prudent for a Doctor to do a followup examination. What we learn from applying the BlackBlood to his modified DNA will tell us just how useful it is. there may be a point where we no longer need to modify a persons DNA to get the desired result. Just modify the programming of the BlackBlood to get the desired effect" White responded.

"And if he tries to escape again?" Black asked.

"He'll have to deal with Mr. Blue. But for now we will keep him under constant sedation. he won't actually need to be conscious for another few weeks." White answered. "But tell me friend. did you manage to save the Phrik bone bonding process from the STAFF?"

"Yes and no. All the information and logs from the project are safe in the database which we rescued. We were unable to move the machine onto the evacuation craft however." Black said. "No matter though. i think i can build a better one. using what we know of the project already i can make a more efficient system. But why? surely you don't want to make another of his kind?"

"Perhaps, but perhaps not. His healing ability is remarkable, definitely something we should keep in mind for future projects. The subjects could be quite useful if we can ever make them less... unpredictable." White said rubbing his chin.

White peered closely at the corpse lying on the table in front of him. "Perhaps if we had a more stable subject. After all, 109K was his parents son. He would always have been... unpredictable, if not extremely violent."

Black almost chuckled. "I was the one who said Maximum security prisoners made for poor DNA pools."

"Yes yes. perhaps your right. We shall see if we can't control him. meanwhile i plan on reopening Project K and begining on a new subject. The one we have in cold storage, Number 1138." White said, turning to leave the room.

Dr. Black was at his side, and fell into step with him as they walked out. "Heavy blaster shot to the chest. He was gone for nearly 4 hours before we got to him."

"The BlackBlood will take care of that, as well as help us rewrite his DNA. Prepare the Abyssian and Gen'dai samples for the sequencer. I'll have a batch of BlackBlood ready in a day tailored just for 1138." White said with a smile. "in the mean time, you get three clones out of storage and arm them to guard 109K's body in case there's a problem with the sedatives."

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

OOC I didn't know if you wanted me to post after that post but here goes nothing. Let me know if it's alright.


Grey. Dull pain. That's all that he could feel right now, as he slipped in and out of semi awareness. He was unaware at first of a conversation but soon he heard voices. Voices that he could hardly identify in the background as they faded in and out. He only catch but the breifest of fragments.

109K was a failure..... we could not control him..... His healing ability is remarkable..... After all, 109K was his parents son....

Then they were gone, and he faded to black once again. It was sometime later, time was impossible to judge but it felt like forever, that he began to feel some sensation. It seemed as if to come from an external source. If somewhat Alien but comforting all the same. It was through this that he felt his body being put to sleep, as yet another needle entered his body. Unbeknownst to Jik he was feeling the force which had had reached out to subconciously, and instinctively.

The Liquid entering his body felt foreign, sickly, and wrong. Something that shouldn't be there. It numbed his senses where-ever it spread. Something was different this time however, he felt his body was getting used to the sedative, and it was having less of an effect. Infact, he could now feel his body and move the muscles, his eyes opened to this sudden realization seeing a labroom. His baser instincts took over as his first thought was to escape.

Jumping up off the table he throtled one of the guards to the wall, holding him firmly in place as he glanced around seeing to other guards. "Where am I? What is this place?" were the first questions that came to his head. He couldn't remember anything, how he got here, who these people were. Why am I here?

[MikDaTv]

In moments of Jik's getting up the other two clones raised their weapons. Jik was struck in the back with a dozen darts filled with a powerful neurotoxin. Normally it would kill a human being but with Jiks advanced healing abilities it acted as a paralytic. He wouldn't be able to move for a good ten minutes before the nerve endings repaired themselves.

One of the clones pulled Jiks lifeless body off the other guard and slammed him to the ground, placing his boot on Jiks chest. The other hit the walky talky on his shoulder. "Dr. White, the subject is awake. sedative proved ineffective. We've incapacitated him for a time. Permission to terminate subject?"

"NO" Came white's response over the radio. "He is to remain alive. Double the sedative dose and restrain him to the table."

The guard double clicked the radio and picked Jik up by the shoulders, easily lifting his weight, and tossing him roughly back onto the examination table.

The guard Jik had throttled recovered from the attack and retrieved his weapon from where he dropped it on the floor.

A few minutes later Dr. White entered the room with a team of techs who had a gurney in tow. On the gurney was a body which was still dripping water. They had pulled it out of the freezer a few hours ago and it was slowly thawing out.

They wheeled it in right next to Jik and began hooking it up to the life sign detectors and IV lines.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Jik felt the darts impale him from the back. The effects started and were almost instantanious on his system. He stumbled backwards letting the guard in front of him go as he put his arm over his head to his back, and pulled two darts looking at them. Looking up for a moment he looked confused before falling to the ground in a sudden descent.

[MikDaTv]

Now that he was secured in place, the guards deemed it clear for the techs to get back to work on their new project. The corpse that was on the table was certainly dead. a hole the size of a grape fruit was blown out at the center of his chest. And if that hadn't killed him, 10 years in the freezer would have. This however didn't concern the techs as they hooked him up to a BlackBlood injector.

Dr. White watched them work from the safety of the observation room and opened a metal case in front of him. within the case were two syringes filled with a reddish tinted liquid. Dr. Black didn't bother to look at the case, he kept his eyes trained on the room.

"You really think this will work?" Black asked.

Dr. White replaced the syringes into the case and closed it. "it's not like he's our only test subject. he was only taking up space in storage and in our new facility here we don't have enough room to just let bodies sit in storage."

"True, but this hasn't been tried on humans before." Black said turning away from the window. "Are we even sure that a transfusion from 109K will work?"

"No, but theoretically it's a sound idea. His blood should be able to invigorate any living cells left in the subjects body to reproduce themselves. Combined with the BlackBlood repairing his damaged cells into fully working and functional cells should act almost like a cure all. If it works, good for us. If it doesn't, we've learned something new."

[MikDaTv]

Subject 1313K laid on the table next to Subject 109K as Techs worked around him. They gave him three injections. A large portion of blackblood was injected right into the hole in his chest into his now fully thawed blood stream plus two injections of blood from 109K.

An IV was hooked up to his arm and set up with a pump to make the blood in his veins flow normally instead of it just sitting there in his veins. The blackblood in his system began rebuilding his dead cells, repairing them from a decaying state into functional cells. The blood from 109K would begin the regeneration process.

Things happened slowly at first but picked up as more and more cells became active. Soon subject 1313K was regenerating right before the eyes of the doctors working on him. Dr. White walked in with his case and set it down on the equipment table.

He then walked to 109K's heavily sedated and restrained body and smiled. "You see, your needed here. Without you this man would have stayed dead. Your the key to more things then you know. The secret of immortality is locked away in your blood, and i will find it. Even if i have to kill you doing it."

He looked up and over at the case. He pointed to it "Begin secondary injections. I want 1313K going through his process by the end of the day."

[MikDaTv]

1313K lay on the table for 6 hours. The injections of the gold liquid had coursed silently through his bloodstream, chemically changing his organs. The techs would come in every now and then to take blood samples and find that his skin would change upon contact. It would move and morph away from the needle point.

Dr. White would add some Gene therapy virus's to 1313 every now and then. The BlackBlood was finally exiting his system through his urine. All the nanomachines had finally stopped working and were being flushed out by the body. 109K's blood had done it's job in healing the damage form the blaster wound and freezer burn.

1313K was just barely conscious. forced into sleep by sedatives just like 109K. Brain scans showed sever damage had been done to his brain. Freezer burn had caused large sections of his brain to contract and entangle the nerve fibers. The blackblood had done its best to repair the damage but since none of the cells were actually damaged, they hadn't done enough.

Dr. White didn't know what kind of state of mind the subject would be in when they finally woke him up. but it didn't really matter since they were going to adjust him appropriately using implants anyway.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

This whole time 109K had been building an immunity to their drug. The more he received the more his body became less effected by it. It was like drugs, the first time you used it was the best, and then every time afterwards you had to use more and more to reach the same high which never came. 109K using all his strength pulled at the restraints suddenly breaking through them hopping up grabbing one of the guards guns and using him as a sheild and shot darts into both of the other guards quickly.

109K was still disoriented about how he got here, but instinct told him to get away. Twisting the man's hand still he aimed yet one more dart into the man to sedate him. Looking around the room he saw next to him, another man upon the table. He stood thinking for a moment before he walked over to the body and threw him over his shoulder and began carrying him.

"I don't know what they have you here buddy, but we're gettin' out of here." said 109K as he began to head for the exit, he didn't know exactically how to get out, but he began running through the hallways with a man upon his back hoping there wasn't more guards. He had picked up a second sedative gun from one of the guards on his way out and hoped he wouldn't have to use it.

[MikDaTv]

1313 still had some of 109's blood running through his veins so once he was disconnected from the IV he began to wake up.

109 would find along the way that the base was sealed off. To get to the different levels required hand print identification and his escape had not gone unnoticed. Security cameras had picked up the fight in the lab and subsequent escape.

Dr. Black was buys bringing more guards out of deep freeze to deal with the situation but in the meantime Dr. White was arming some of his technicians with stunners.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

As 109K neared the end of a hallway he found the elevator locked. "Damn, it couldn't be easy could it." he muttered to himself looking at an open doorway to his right and quickly entered through it. It was a defensible posision for now, however things could get ugly fast if he couldn't figure out a way to get out of here. Setting the man down in the room he shut the door, checking the room for cameras.

'None... well that's a relief for the moment, now who is this guy....' thought 109K as he kneeled down to the man. He nudged the man gently at first.

"Wake up.... come on.... wake up!" said 109K finally giving him a good smack across the face to see if it was phaze the man. It was not soon after he did this did he notice a vent system off to his right. Was it possible this could lead out...? 'It might be a tight fit.' thought Jik as he turned back to the man to see if he had reacted to the slap across the face.

[MikDaTv]

When 109 returned he found a different person lying there. It was one of the technicians that had worked on both of them. Still in the same hospital gown but his body and face had changed.

His eyes fluttered open and he rolled over on his side, throwing up on the floor. The stench of bile filled his nostrils and he groaned. His eyes slammed shut as the light poured in. He felt like he hadn't opened his eyes in days... months even.

Flashes of light bounced around behind his eyelids. He saw the image of a droid in front of him and a flash of light from it's blaster firing. He saw an image of a ship, it's boarding ramp down and it's hull painted like the skyline of a city. He remembered Corellia, his favorite place in the galaxy. Flashes of space battles, bar fights, friends and enemies.

He took a gasping breath as his body suddenly felt full again. As if while he was laying on the examination table in that lab he was an empty container and now, with the flood of memories, he was refilling.

He felt his skin crawl, like he was covered in hundreds of insects. Then he felt something strange like his bones lengthening, changing shape slightly. It was a very strange feeling but not wholly unpleasant.

When 109 looked back at him he'd changed again, back into the person he was before. "I feel really hungover."

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

OOC I'm slightly confused with your post Mik, I never left the room i set 1313K, unless that guy in a labcoat doing the experiments isn't the guy i slapped ah i'm probably just over thinkin the post so i'll just roll with it.

109K looked over at the man who had finally come to. "Join the club, you've any idea what your doing here? I sure don't." said 109K as he glanced down the hallway guards were rushing down it. "I'm not sure if this will work, but better then nothing."

109K took a sharp metal object slamming it into the control consule of the door which slammed shut jamming. "That may buy us some time.... I hope... can you move? I think their may be a way through the ventaliation shafts of this place, no garentees, but I am not sticking around to find out."

109K tossed the man his spare dart gun, it wasn't much but it was better then nothing. "They are paralyze darts, but you only have six shots, use them wisely." said 109K as he walked over kneeling down to the screen of the metal vent. He began to pull at the vent until it came loose, and with a final exhausting yank it broke free. "Well then, after you?" said 109K throwing down the metal sheet as he heard voices growing louder on the outside of the door of the room.

[MikDaTv]

1313 excepted the weapon and groggily climbed into the vent. It was dark in there so he had to navigate mostly by feeling. "You wouldn't happen to know what direction we should be going do you?" He asked.

There were a few areas that were blocked off by fan blades shielded by thick grates. they're footsteps and attempts at crawling echoed loudly through the vent shafts. 1313 was getting awfully tired, even though he'd just woke up from years worth of slumber, he was still weak. His muscles had atrophied from disuse. Being dead had a tendency to do that to people.

The shaft dead ended into a vertical drop down into one of the places corridors. 1313 could hear talking coming up through the vent. He had no doubt whoever was down there could hear them banging around but it was either through here or back the way they had come.

13 kicked the grate in and fell through to the floor a short drop below. Two techs with stunners stood there. Their long slender rifle type weapons shook as they pointed it at 13. But they quickly lowered their rifles when before them they saw Dr. White. Something was strange about him though. He looked weak, even for his age, and he was in a hospital gown.

They both ran to him and helped him stand. "Doctor, are you ok? What happened? why were you up there?" the technicians asked

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

109K followed 13 through the vents making loud noises all along the way, he however was trying to keep quite however he couldn't figure out why he was making so much sound, he couldn't weight that much. 13 dropped down in front of him and he looked down after him down the shaft seeing Dr. White. Instead.

"I thought I was dilusional.... can he change his shapes?" 109K asked himself shaking his head and glancing again, but he still saw Dr. White now with two scientists coming to help him. He'd have to use the element of surprize for now. Dropping down he managed to land upon his feet and shooting into the back of both the technitions backs. "How are you doing that.... changing your shape? Who are you?" said 109K as he started to grab the cloths of the techictions. "Maybe we can get around for awhile dressed as these guys... no garentee however it's better then running around in hospital uniforms."